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Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin is one of the oldest wordplays in literature. A mene was a small Greek copper coin, it also meant to count or measure. Tekel was a silver Phoenician coin, in Hebrew, a shekel. It also meant to weigh. Upharsin was a gold Persian coin, and it also meant to divide. You can see why they needed a specialist to decipher the message. 🙂